Slide 1You Have A Choice! Finding High Quality Child Care in Your Community Slide 2 Baby’s Brain: Quick Facts In the first few years of life, 700 new neural connections…
Slide 1Brain Basics Facts and Misconceptions Perception and Reality Things Are Not Always As They Seem... Slide 2 Brain Basics Overview Brain Facts Discussion and Questions…
Slide 1 Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth Teratogens: Hazardous to the Baby’s Health By Kati Tumaneng (for Drs. Cook & Cook) Slide 2 Teratogens: Hazardous to…
Slide 1 Chapter 5 INFANCY Slide 2 INFANCY Sensation: the detection of sensory stimulation Perception: the interpretation of what is sensed Slide 3 THE NEWBORN’S READINESS…
Slide 1 Slide 2 How the Nervous System Works The nervous system coordinates all of the activities in the body. It’s a complex network that allows communication between…
Slide 1 Shaken Baby Syndrome – What You Need to Know Slide 2 SBS can happen when an adult or older child violently shakes an infant or young child The baby’s brain moves…
Slide 1 Effects of Early Stimulation and Deprivation Slide 2 The general philosophical trend has been that stimulation is always “good” and deprivation is always “bad.”…
Slide 1 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD) A range of pervasive developmental disorders, with onset in childhood, that adversely affect a pupil's functioning and result…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Size: zygote barely fits on the head of a pin 3 to 5 days after conception will burrow into wall of uterus 12 to 15 days after implantation hCG…
Slide 1 Promoting Speech, Language, Literacy, & Auditory Working Memory Tim Conway, Ph.D. The Morris Center The Einstein School University of Florida Neuro-development…